cityscapen.
/ˈsɪtɪskeɪp/, U.S. /ˈsɪdiˌskeɪp/ 1. The visual appearance of a city; the landscape or layout of a city or urban area; urban scenery. Cf. urbanscape n.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > view or scenery > others
street scene1673
skyscape1811
streetscape1833
cityscape1856
skyline1875
townscape1880
roofscape1891
roadscape1899
farmscape1922
manscape1927
slumscape1947
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town- or city-scape
cityscape1856
townscape1867
built environment1942
urbanscape1958
1856 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 19 July 86/2 We do not deny that it is extremely pleasant to take an occasional run into the country to enjoy, not the land—but the city-scape.
1856 W. M. Thackeray Let. 28 Dec. in Lett. A. T. Ritchie (1924) v. 82 A fairyland of frozen land, river and city-scape.
1914 E. W. Peattie Precipice xvii. 208 Honora..peering out at the early summer cityscape.
1952 D. Hoffman Paul Bunyan v. 133 His attempts to describe cityscapes in terms of neo-Wordsworthian natural beauty.
1959 Archit. Rev. 125 373/3 A preference for landscape over cityscape.
2007 Opera Now Mar. 71/1 It took me a full day before I was able to find my way about, so altered is the cityscape.
2. A painting, picture, or other artistic representation of a city or urban area.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > landscape-painting > a landscape or view > type of
paysage1611
winter piece1612
rockscape1754
pastoral1798
skyscape1811
snow scene1836
icescape1839
cloudscape1868
townscape1880
winterscape1884
treescape1885
farmscape1886
cowscape1896
roadscape1899
cityscape1915
dunescape1928
slumscape1947
hellscape1959
jungle-scape1973
1915 W. H. Wright Mod. Painting xi. 260 Delaunay's..cityscapes with the Eiffel tower as the principal object are interesting though not profound.
1960 20th Cent. Apr. 375 Private Fires is a cityscape, a rich Dickensian evocation of a decaying, badly-blitzed suburb.
1988 Mid-Atlantic Country Mar. 24/2 A mid-career retrospective..which includes 53 cityscapes, landscapes, new events paintings, and political and art-world allegories.
2011 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Aug. c18 ‘Street’..covers everything from graffiti to junk sculpture to painted cityscapes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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